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Events from the year 1970 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 45 (昭和45年) in the Japanese calendar.

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  • March 15 – September 13 – Expo '70 in Osaka.
  • March 31 – Hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351
  • April 8 – Gas explosion at subway construction site in Osaka kills 79, injures over 400.
  • May 13 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a suspicion man shot dead by Japanese authority after two-days, with another all passengers and crew freed, a passenger ferry Prince hijacking off Kurushima Straight, Seto Inland Sea.[2]
  • June 29 – According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a Ryōmō General hospital fire, resulting to 17 person fatalities with 10 person injures, in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture.[page needed]
  • October – Mitsubishi Motors is founded. The Mitsubishi keiretsu had already begun making cars as far back as 1917, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had made many vehicles in the postwar era, but the actual company would not be founded until this date.
  • November 25 – In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
  • December 20 - Koza riot: a violent and spontaneous protest against the US military presence in Okinawa. Roughly 5,000 Okinawans clashed with roughly 700 American MPs in an event which has been regarded as symbolic of Okinawan anger against 25 years of US military occupation.[3][4] In the riot, approximately 60 Americans were injured, 80 cars were burned, and several buildings on Kadena Air Base were destroyed or heavily damaged.[5]
  • Unknown date – Oceanroutes Service Japan was founded, as predecessor of Japan Weather News, a meteorological service in nationwide.[citation needed]

Births

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Naoko Yamazaki

Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ ja:瀬戸内シージャック事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved date on June 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Kadekawa. p176.
  4. ^ "矛盾に満ちた住民対立/コザ騒動から30年 - 琉球新報 - 沖縄の新聞、地域のニュース". Ryukyushimpo.jp. Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  5. ^ Mitchell, Jon, "Military policeman's 'hobby' documented 1970 Okinawa rioting Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine", Japan Times, 17 December 2011, p. 12.
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